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Illustration Key:
Disconnect: Although this figure is made of the very same Earth that
surrounds them, their mind has created a separation, causing them to
forget their innate belonging to the land. Their suffering is not the loss of
sacred connection, but rather the loss of awareness of that connection.
Digestion: This digestive system winds like a river, marking the body with
deposits left by paths carved by choices and influences from the past. The
meandering currents have carved a history, a record of all that this body
has ingested.
Cempasuchitl: Known as “flowers of the dead” and used on dia de
los muertos to invite souls of the departed back to visit the living,
cempasuchil (marigolds) are for celebrating life collectively during the
grieving times. Also inspired by the line from the poem A Plain Spring
Song by Nezahualcoyotl: “Life Giver, let us borrow your flowers, these
golden flowers, these wailing flowers. No one can enjoy them forever,
for we must depart. Ahuaye ohuaya ohuaya”
Coral Snake: Freshly emerging from old skin, knowing how to shed what
once contained them but that which is now too small, the coral snake
deity has the body wisdom to metabolize the unprocessed grief.
Cotton: A closer look at the origins of an everyday modern object.
Traced back to the soil, cotton is a plant whose labor-intensive
cultivation and the inhumane industry built around it weaves a legacy
of genocide, enslavement and land exploitation that literally clothes
America. This legacy makes cotton seeds an opportunity to be a part of
reparations and land rematriation.
Open Space: The breath-of-fresh-air feeling of clarity and possibility that
opens on the other side of grieving or moving though challenge.
Mask: “Sorrow is your joy unmasked” -Kahlil Gibran. Let us not
encounter each other and assume one another’s purity, but instead ask
with curiosity, ‘what else is underneath the mask?’
Jaguar/Ocelotl: A being with night vision, Jaguars can move between
worlds, holding knowledge of what cannot be (or does not want to be)
seen in the light. They are guardians of sacred places and use their
power to see what others might think unimaginable.
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